Idea Quotes

We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life "outside" the story changes the story.

Kevin, as the whole cast is, just wonderful people and great people, and people who are attracted to this kind of material and accepting the idea of going to Newfoundland and knowing the kind of lack of amenities.

The idea of old was to conform yourself to a style of cooking, it was not to create a style of cooking. Now the chef is so much into 'I want to sign that dish and say I am the one who made that dish.'

People have the idea of missionaries as going out with the Bible and hitting natives with it. It's not really what they were doing. They were all doing something rather different.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.

I just get an idea and then all of a sudden I've got a song.

But I'd say that probably 70 percent of the bunkering is more to give you an idea of the direction that you want to go or to save your ball from going into worse places.

There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.

I reject absolutely the idea that people should know their place, and know their class.

The idea of a perfect vacation is not working or not having to work and having no appointments.

I had kicked around the idea for Good Eats when I was directing commercials.

Even if you don't believe in God, exploring fully the idea of a god or gods should pose no threat to you.

Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea.

Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.

This idea of holding the Defense Department hostage to the tax debate makes me sick to my stomach. Knock it off.

I have to wear clothes but I don't like to give an idea of what I am with clothes.

A good idea for lyrics and a melody to expand on.

A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.

My idea of the ideal sex education site doesn't exist.

I love a long bath. I love anything creative. I love decorating. I even love just flipping through magazines and vegging out for a while. But I'm also one of those people who loves to work, so I'll sing, dance, work on my next performance, or write whomever it may be about a new idea.

It doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state.

He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.

Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.

I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art.

Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.

I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for.

Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.

Sometimes it leads me even to hesitate whether I am strictly correct in my idea that all men are born to equal rights, for their conduct seems to me to contravene the doctrine.